Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
10.02.2026
Verlag
The Indigo PressSeitenzahl
240
Maße (L/B/H)
20,3/13,9/2,4 cm
Gewicht
308 g
Originaltitel
AhnenÜbersetzt von
Neil Blackadder
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-917378-05-5
How do you live with a history you cannot escape? What did it mean to be German one hundred years ago--and what does it mean today?
These questions lie at the heart of Sanderling, a classic work of literary inquiry by Anne Weber, one of Germany's leading contemporary authors. In this deeply personal and intellectually rigorous book, Weber journeys into the past to uncover the life of her great-grandfather Florens Christian Rang (1864-1924), whom she nicknames Sanderling after the darting shorebird.
A Protestant pastor in Prussian-ruled Poland, Rang served a church committed to the "Germanization" of the local population--an ideology that would later find horrific expression in the ambitions of the Third Reich. After leaving the church, Sanderling became part of the intellectual circles of Walter Benjamin, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Martin Buber, joining writers, artists, and philosophers who dreamed of a utopian society. Yet his legacy is deeply conflicted: one of his sons--Weber's grandfather--would go on to become a Nazi.
Through close readings of letters and diaries and by traveling in her ancestor's footsteps across Poland, Weber traces a lineage marked by contradiction, moral crisis, reckoning, and rupture. Drawing on literary and philosophical touchstones such as Susan Sontag, W. G. Sebald, and Friedrich Nietzsche, she weaves family history with a searching examination of ethics, responsibility, and memory.
Both a travel diary through time and a meditation on inherited guilt and identity, Sanderling reaches back into the past to better understand the present--and the burdens it carries.
"A searing examination of family and historical legacy, of how the past extends into the present." -- The Observer
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